VMware held a leadership summit in 2017 to discuss challenges facing public sector IT leaders and opportunities to modernize government IT. The document outlines 5 myths about IT strategies and how VMware's portfolio of solutions can help address issues around bi-modal IT, hybrid cloud strategies, cybersecurity, mobile experiences, and container proliferation. VMware aims to help customers conquer silos across compute, storage, applications and clouds through virtualization, software-defined data center technologies, and cross-cloud architectures.
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How many of you all have heard of this idea that bi-modal IT is the best strategy today?
You’ve heard that? What do you think? Our thinking? Not true!
IT Operations—predictable, and you need these new developers and the exploratory folks of the future. Now, that means—How many of you want a part of the “old and slow” team? Not so much! None of us wants to be in the “old, slow, cranky” team. All of us want to be a part of the cool new team. . . These associations need to be cast aside with the two teams working in harmony toward a single purpose – to drive speed and innovation.
Fragmenting IT into "old & slow vs new & fast" is a false binary and a fundamentally flawed strategy
The person who came up with this obviously never ran an organization. We need to bring innovation to every aspect of the business. This model results in discord, budget battles, and a management nightmare.
The real challenge is enabling innovation across IT, at the app level, infrastructure that is agile and can respond and security that is built in and enabling that pace of innovation
This is what we do. We’re going to create agile, scalable infrastructure that allows innovation and scale across the entire business. Make the infra easy, automated, and scalable so that the business can innovate everywhere—in existing apps and in new apps as well.
Myth #2: “It’s time to take everything to the Public Cloud. Close the doors ASAP.”
And why not? There’s a certain appeal to this thought process where I can get out of running capital; I don’t need to manage those data centers myself, running that depreciation. Sounds pretty conducive, doesn’t it?
Well– Why not? A little acronym for you: CP2. So the reason “why not” is, if you don’t care about Cost, Performance, Compliance, or Privacy, just move it all to the cloud. What do you think—Do you care about any of those things?
Do you care about a well-performing private cloud being dramatically cheaper than a public cloud?
Performance—you know, you still have this problem called speed of light and latency.
Compliance and regulation.
Privacy requirements are going to increase and become more acute in the context of EU and GDPR.
And our industry has this pendulum swing that goes side to side, going from the mainframe era to the distributed era. When we think about things like IoT, more will move back to the edge and on-premise as well.
And this is what cross-cloud is all about, enabling the best of both worlds.
In the past, VMware provided compute and server freedom.
In the future, VMware will provide cloud freedom and cloud control.
The cloud has become the new hardware and we are uniquely positioned to enable that new future.
And if you look back at my VMworld speech this year, what did we say? 50/50 by 2030. The math simply doesn’t work for an all public-cloud environment.
The result is, there will be decades of a hybrid world in front of us.
But we have some responsibility here. Because we have not made the private cloud nearly as easy and consumable as it needs to be. We need to make it simpler, easier, more efficient. And three ways that we’re going to do that? This is what VMware Cloud Foundation is all about—putting all the pieces together. And I expect by FY19, this becomes our primary selling notion—Cloud Foundation. All hardware becomes hyper-converged hardware in the future. We have to drive that agenda with our vSAN, VxRack, vXRAIL products, much more aggressively. And the rule of the cloud—ruthlessly automate everything. That’s what vRealize is all about. We have to drive these agendas and make private cloud much easier.
And uniquely enable the hybrid cloud world. This is our opportunity.
Myth #3 – Cybersecurity, IT is running faster just to stay in place. And if you’re an IT security pro, you know the gerbil is a pretty good picture. You’re running like crazy and guess what–
You’re not getting ahead. And in fact, if you look at the data, you’re spending more of your IT budget on security—4% growth in IT spending overall, 25% growth in security spending. And the result is, that increase in spending on cyber security, how are you doing?
Security breaches are on the rise. So we’re spending more and our breaches are increasing. Something is fundamentally wrong.
Now this to me is just an awesome picture.
This is the security industry. This is what our industry is presenting to our customers as saying, “Here’s the solution.” Can you believe this collection of logos? Isn’t this overwhelming? I just love this slide. Now, how can IT possibly put all of these together and make them work. Integrate them all, update them all, keep them all current. We have delivered a menagerie of point products.
And what the user wants is to secure users, apps, and data. We VMware are going to do that by securing the user identity and the endpoints and by securing the infrastructure. And what we’re going to do in terms of the way we do this is going to be industry-shaping and game-changing.
What we’re going to do is make the infrastructure secure. Literally. We are going to integrate more of those functionalities directly into the infrastructure. Native encryption in vSphere, NSX microsegmentation, AirWatch. These things are going to take more of that functionality and make it that you have to turn it off, not turn it on. We’re simply going to make these things go away. And then we’re going to partner deeply with the key foundational platforms and products and integrate more of those functionalities away. And then finally, enable a world where cyber hygiene is standard and common. This fragmented, insecure environment that we have today—we have to come to a world where we bring those pieces together and enable the basics of encryption, strong identifications, software upgrades and patch. We have a fundamental challenge that we can enable a more secure environment than ever before.
Myth #4 - “Enterprise mobility is fragmented, insecure, and my user experience sucks.”
So other than that, what do you think?
Sounds pretty good.
Well—this is my car, by the way, I drive an i8. Looks cool, feels good, goes fast. That’s not me in the picture. But this is the kind of Apple store elegance that we want and expect, but when we go to our corporate environments, what we get is what is Complicated. Difficult.
And what we need to enable is that ability to stitch together all of these silos of innovation into an overall solution.
Once again we see way too many logos, way too many customers. And our opportunity is to displace not just one of these, but many or most of these companies. Delivering a compelling user interface. Delivering an integrated solution that brings all of those pieces together. Delivering identity, desktop-mobile management, security, and to make it cool like an i8!
Consumer simple, and enterprise secure. That’s what we will do to address this myth of mobility and the end-user space.
Now, Myth #5 -- All apps will be built via containers and VMware becomes irrelevant in that process.
We were not aggressive in addressing the OpenStack challenge to our business. It has taken us years to navigate on top of that trend with VMware integrated OpenStack. I want you to be very clear today: VMware loves containers. We will not be late in embracing containers. Containers are much more important. They automate the application development, deployment, and lifecycle management. We are grabbing this trend much more aggressively.
Let me hear you say it: “VMware loves containers.”
Now, as we think about this — why is it good for our business? Well, the first thing is—analysts expect, as people refactor their applications to containers, there’s a 10x increase in the number of containers. 10x – So that’s 10x the number of ports that need NSX connectivity. That’s 10x the number of storage attach points. 10x the number of elements that need management. What do you think – 10x? This is a huge opportunity for us, and IDC, even before we have even started to really deliver our platform, 70% get wrapped in VMs. 70% of 10x – What an extraordinary opportunity for VMware – to be the company that delivers the infrastructure to create.
Once again, the market is chaotic. Way too many players, nobody’s making money, it’s early in this industry formation. Who’s going to win?
And against that, we’re going to solve the fundamental dilemma.
We’re going to allow the infrastructure folks to have an infrastructure that enables a container world.
We’re going to solve this dilemma of operations, and to uniquely allow customers to say yes, to containers, to their developer teams.
We are uniquely positioned to make containers enterprise-ready.
And between VIC (our VMware Integrated Containers) and Photon, an all-in, purpose-built stack, we are the company to bridge those two worlds and deliver an enterprise ready platform for a container-oriented world.
We’re going to partner deeply with Pivotal and other key technologies in the space. We love containers.
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